Congratulations to Riverside High School for winning the 2024 Corona Rostrensis Speech and Debate Tournament held at Charlotte Latin High School. The event featured competition from 500 high school students representing 27 schools and two states. In addition to winning the overall sweepstakes award, Riverside had the most individual event champions: Valeria de la Llave was a double champion in both Dramatic Interpretation and Program Oral Interpretation. Other champions include Isabella Murillo in Extemporaneous Speaking, Kai Tucker in Impromptu Speaking, and Fox Vickery in Humorous Interpretation.

A complete list of Riverside winners follows:

• Jose Pena-Farias, 2nd in Children’s Literature

• Diego Ruiz Jara, 3rd in Children’s Literature

• Mikel Eguiraun, 4th in Children’s Literature

• Devon Becker, 5th in Children’s Literature

• Rebecca Han, 2nd in Congressional Debate

• Shohom Saha, Finalist in Congressional Debate (10th)

• Greta Kriston, 2nd in Declamation

• Stephanie Duan, 3rd in Declamation

• Sam Yee, 5th in Declamation

• Valeria de la Llave, 1st in Dramatic Interpretation

• Isabella Murillo, 3rd in Dramatic Interpretation

• Lina Nguyen, 5th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Catalina Jara Parada, 6th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Artem Feno and Kai Tucker, 3rd in Duo Interpretation

• Avi Bhatia and Fox Vickery, 4th in Duo Interpretation

• Joshua Maxwell and Jose Pena-Farias, 5th in Duo Interpretation

• Isabella Murillo, 1st in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Kenneth Zalewski, 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Sashwath Sivaraman, 5th in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Fox Vickery, 1st in Humorous Interpretation

• Devon Becker, 2nd in Humorous Interpretation

• Lucia Callahan, 3rd in Humorous Interpretation

• Artem Feno, 4th in Humorous Interpretation

• Kai Tucker, 1st in Impromptu Speaking

• Jeffrey Yu, 2nd in Informative Speaking

• Sashwath Sivaraman, 4th in Informative Speaking

• Jon Eguiraun, 6th in Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Annika Killian and Gabriel Killian, 2nd in Novice Public Forum Debate

• Stephanie Duan 3rd in Original Oratory

• Valeria de la Llave, 1st in Program Oral Interpretation

• Treesa Abraham, 2nd in Program Oral Interpretation

• Enyonam Toklo, 3rd in Program Oral Interpretation

• Eli Golob, 5th in Program Oral Interpretation